Master of Public Policy

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

2011

Bachelor of Social Work

University of Missouri

Columbia, MO

2005

Data Management Consultant

Freelance

N/A

Current - 2022

• Providing research data management consulting, training, and data wrangling services to improve organizational workflows.

Lead Data Scientist

Streamline Data Science

Remote

2022 - 2021

• Built example client facing crm dashboard in R flexdashboard to be used to publicize services. Currently featured on Streamline’s website.
• Ingested data sources to build an internal metric tracking R flexdashboard that is automated through Google Cloud Platform to update daily.
• Built google trends R flexdashboard (https://gtrends-school.streamlinedatascience.io/) to show capabilities of automatic updating data.

Director, Data Strategy

Missouri Prevention Science Institute

Remote

2021 - 2019

• Strategized data management plans for over ten actively funded projects and oversee their implementation.
• Merged, cleaned, manipulated, queried, validated, and documented data collected from school districts, state education agencies, surveys, assessments, and observations using R.
• Built reports, dashboards, and visualizations for dissemination of data.

Director, Research Implementation

Missouri Prevention Science Institute

University of Missouri

2019 - 2016

• Supervised successful completion of data collection activities for six federally funded randomized controlled trial studies and two county funded projects.
• Delivered quarterly trainings to staff on data collection methods.
• Designed Qualtrics surveys and Access tracking databases.

Research Associate

Missouri Prevention Science Institute

University of Missouri

2016 - 2013

• Coordinated two Institute of Education Sciences funded randomized controlled trial studies.
• Collected data in schools through classroom observations, surveys, and assessments.

Evaluation and Outcomes Manager

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri

Saint Louis, MO

2013 - 2011

• Oversaw the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data relating to performance management, outcomes, and customer satisfaction.

Research Assistant

Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare

University of Minnesota

2011 - 2010

• Evaluated the effectiveness of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office truancy intervention program using qualitative and quantitative methods.

Graduate Assistant

Hennepin-University Partnership

University of Minnesota

2010 - 2009

• Connected County officials with University faculty to develop effective partnerships to improve the community.

In-school and out-of-school suspension: Behavioral and psychological outcomes in a predominately Black sample of middle school students

School Psychology Review

N/A

2021

• Authored with Dan Cohen, Francis Huang, Colleen Eddy, Caroline Hodgson.

Motivational interviewing with at-risk students (MARS) mentoring program: Addressing the unique mental health needs of students in alternative school placements

School Psychology Review

N/A

2020

• Authored with Lauren Henry, Wendy Reinke, Keith Herman, Aaron Thompson.

Bullying involvement, teacher-student relationships, and psychosocial outcomes

School Psychology Quarterly

N/A

2018

• Authored with Francis Huang, Dan Cohen, Sara Prewett, Keith Herman.

Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research Series

Missouri Prevention Science Institute

N/A

2021

• A series of workshops on topics concerning the implementation of a research study data management plan. https://cghlewis.github.io/mpsi-data-training/

Cleaning Messy Data in R

R-Ladies St. Louis Meetup

N/A

2019

• Two hour workshop on cleaning data using examples from the field of education.

Introduction to R

LaunchCode

N/A

2019

• Guest lecture for CoderGirl Data Analysis track.